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Ellsworth Kelly Reliefs 2009-2010

Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781880146569, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2011
48 pp., 33.6x25.4 cm, 24 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This monograph presents 13 paintings and one sculpture that demonstrate a new refinement in Ellsworth Kelly's work. In each of the paintings a rectangular canvas is painted with numerous layers of white paint, on top of whi...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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History of Art

Edward Hopper Portraits of America

Schmied Wieland

ISBN: PB: 9783791346137, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 27 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Now available again, this book is a penetrating exploration of the American realist painter Edward Hopper, who was able to capture the many moods of the nation he called home. From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty off...

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Fashion

Daphne Guinness

Steele Valerie, Guinness Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...

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Children's Books

Coloring Book Leonardo Da Vinci

Sauer Inge

ISBN: PB: 9783791370651, Prestel Publishing, August 2011
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.

Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.

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Photography

Life and Death of Buildings On Photography and Time

Smith Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780300174359, Yale University Press, August 2011
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus.

Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architectur...

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History of Art

Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection

Sutton Peter C., Robinson William W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176063, Yale University Press, August 2011
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Over the course of several decades, George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selection of these superb works, and explores the role of drawing in the cr...

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Contemporary Art

Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence Painting with White Border

Smithgall Elsa

ISBN: HB: 9780300170788, Yale University Press, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 75 colour illus.

Russian artist and theoretician Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork "Painting with White Border" (1913, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an inte...

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Contemporary Art

Bookwork Medium to Object to Concept to Art

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: HB: 9780226773919, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
272 pp., 28.4x22.4 cm, 68 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space – those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as r...

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History of Art

Altered and Adorned Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life

Schmidt Suzanne Karr

ISBN: HB: 9780300169119, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2011
104 pp., 31x23.4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. "Altered and Adorned" is a delightful, surprising look at how prints were used...

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